Well, there should be no more blocking bugs on this, thanks to Amaya.
Now we just need to figure out a procedure to migrate from debconf to
cdebconf.
The first problem I've run into is that cdebconf fails to run if any of
/var/lib/cdebconf/*.dat are missing. And installing the package doesn't
provide these, though it does provide questions and templates _directories_,
which the default config doesn't use.
The second problem is probably that it defaults to the text frontend,
though it can easily be changed to newt by editing /etc/cdebconf.conf.
Then after setting
PATH=/usr/lib/cdebconf:$PATH
export DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF=1
I was ready to start testing and filing bugs. :-)
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